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Mattski is a righteous sea-breeze of evocative, hook-filled, sometimes foot-stomping, sometimes reflective tunes. Proudly original, his music stomps, hollers, grooves and cajoles from a deep and stark sense of place and myriad questions about tomorrow. It’s a trip to the Mississippi delta via Jamaica, through the rich jungle of acoustic funk, around the culs-de-sac of punky self sufficiency and folk ethos; planted in salt water, run through Mallee scrub and left to mature taking in the many moods of the Southern Ocean. Mattski is profoundly influenced by a sense of place – from the sand between our toes to dusty inland highways and the lapping of an ocean on the beach, to a dark corner of a bar or a morning café table. It’s music of contradictions – sophisticated lyrics, solos, riffs and hooks fused with deep grooves and a whole lot of dirt under the fingernails! Debut release Ramshackle Beach is filled with questions, evocative notes, slide guitar growls and sweet acoustic